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Chef Thomas Keller offers a healthful menu inspired by his renowned restaurant the French Laundry

Thomas Keller's salad of beets, apples, walnuts and endives on a wooden plate, served with glasses of white wine
This fresh, seasonal beet salad shows how simplicity and sophistication go together at the French Laundry. (Alanna Hale)

Chef Thomas Keller offers a healthful menu, ideal for home cooks to serve this summer, inspired by his renowned restaurant the French Laundry. Get the recipes—including salad of beets, apples, walnuts and endives; seared salmon with demi-sec tomatoes and olive basil vinaigrette; and dark chocolate sorbet, toasted coconut macaroon and navel oranges—plus wine pairings from Chef Keller and Wine Spectator.

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